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    members and parents everywhere‚ what can be done to help prevent the destruction of our environment and can young people make a difference. The answer is yes anybody can have their say‚ including young people of today. It is even more important for young people to take interest because this land is there future‚ and needs to be there for future generations. Anyone who wants to make a difference can‚ but the most important thing in order to do so is to make voice‚ people have to speak up and make it happen

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    Belonging and connections with people A sense of belonging is a fundamental human need that can be formed from connections made with people. This can have a varying impact – both positive‚ for example in offering‚ security and/or enhancing self-esteem‚ and negative for instance‚ in the suppression of individuality. Those experiencing barriers to belonging‚ often due to being different‚ can also suffer a range of negative consequences such as unhappiness and alienation. The drive to belong and

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    Things do not change‚ we change.” Henry David Thoreau. Fire will always be a material that will not change based on how one uses it. In Fahrenheit 451‚ fire is used to show destruction‚ knowledge‚ and Montag’s view on society. Fire in the novel represents destruction. A job in their society is a fireman. Fireman are the people who start the fires. Throughout the novel fire destroys books‚ the fireman destroy books because the society wants to be equal and if there are no books than no one will

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    Josette Nguyen‚ “Do the right things” emphasizes on racism and typical stereotypes of african american men. It broadcasts the major issues and verbal abuse most ethnicities get towards their cultures. Most americans use terms that are offending and racist without noticing their wrong doings. As the video starts‚ it goes into depth about black culture and how he’s convinced his friend wants to be black. It soon shows these different men from broad cultures around the world speaking on

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    "the most difficult thing I ever learned to do" Most pepole have learned many things to do and some of the learning is the hardest of the others . For me ‚The most difficult thing I ever learned to do in is how to live as an immigrant . Most of all‚The lack of English proficiency was a barrier to a better life.When I came to the United States ‚I couldn’t find any word to express my self in English.Learning english was not

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    In the 1980’s racial tension was high and Spike Lee wrote‚ produced‚ and directed Do the Right Thing interpreting many realistic anomalous problems; gaps between the generations‚ racism‚ sexual & gender roles to name a few. Mookie‚ played by Spike Lee‚ is a pizza delivery man at the local pizzeria‚ but lacks initiative past Bedford-Stuyvesant‚ Brooklyn. The community is full of distinct personalities‚ and Sal‚ played by Danny Aiello‚ the pizzeria’s Italian-American restaurant owner where most characters

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    6.3 According to s.6-5(1) ITAA 1997‚ ordinary income is ‘income according to ordinary concepts’‚ which is a component of the assessable income. Refer to s.6(1) ITAA 1936‚ earnings‚ salaries and fees of employee or people related to any services rendered are the examples of income from personal exertion. Hilary is a mountain climber and she never wrote a story before‚ so the payment probably has insufficient nexus with her personal service because it is unlikely for her to sell stories as a career

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    Wallace and An Ordinary Person by Rabindranath Tagore disclose how everyday people and events can be remarkable and astounding. Furthermore‚ both poems revolve around specific individuals who can serve as proof that there can be components of mystery and excellence within everyone’s life. In Common Magic‚ people change through a number of human experiences‚ while one person is transformed through poetry in An Ordinary Person. The speaker in Common Magic discloses how an ordinary person could have

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    "DO THE RIGHT THING" Spike Lee’s movie Do the Right Thing is an excellent portrayal of what life was and is most certainly like in some areas of New York City and across the United States of America. His movie tells the story of Mookie an African American pizza deliveryman‚ trying to make a living to support his son and girlfriend. He works for Sal and his two sons Vito and Pino who hold completely opposite attitudes when it comes to race. Then there is Radio Raheem who organizes a boycott

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    How can people in society be normal? Ordinary is desirable‚ and anyone else is a social misfit (C.M.‚ 2013). Catharine M‚ a journalist for magazine Teen Ink‚ explains normal as “Normality is an impossible and improbable dream that we strive for all our lives. We strive for it‚ because it will give us that ego boost that we need to reassure us we fit in. Normal is perfection. Normal is the exception.” Normality is a universal struggle for society and what is “normal” changes with changing societal

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